Comparison Of Ernie Feld And Werner Klemke

Help Others, No Matter What

“Good people are like candles; they burn themselves up to give each other light.” Ernie Feld and Werner Klemke were both selfless men who helped others even when their own situations were rough and when helping others could endanger them. Through their situations, though they may have differed from each other, they were both able to help many of the people they encountered. Both Ernie Feld and Werner Klemke show that you can help others, no matter what your situation is.
For example, both Ernie Feld and Werner Klemke were forced to work for the Nazis. Ernie Feld was Jewish and forced into a concentration camp. The officers at the camp later learned that he was formerly a baker and he becomes the baker and chef
Both Ernie Feld and Werner Klemke helped others using their talents they found before the war. Before he had to get rounded up and sent to the concentration camp, Ernie Feld had been a baker. He regularly went on errands in the countryside for his boss and helped out in other ways. Ernie may have even been on track to owning his own bakery when the war came along. Through having his little mini-bakery for the officers in the camp, he was able to save other Jewish prisoners from the backbreaking labor outside of the kitchen. Not only did Ernie Feld use his talents to help others, but Werner Klemke did too. Before he was called up to be in the German army, Werner Klemke was an illustrator. He drew the pictures that children would see in the book “Grimm’s Fairy Tales”. When the war started, he had to go into the German Army. Even though he was made to go into the German army, this didn’t stop him from helping hundreds of Jews. Werner Klemke asked the Nazis if he could set up a printing press to put together cocktail booklets for them, and since the Nazis said yes, he was able to put together the booklets while also making fake identification cards and other documentation to help save the Jews. Even though both Ernie Feld and Werner Klemke helped the Jews, they went about how they helped them differently. The way that Ernie Feld helped the other Jews was much different than how Werner Klemke chose to help the Jews. Ernie Feld chose to help the Jews that were stuck in the concentration camp with him in a safe, legal way that could not get him in any trouble. He simply was working in the kitchen, and hired others to help him. While Ernie Feld was helping the Jews in a safe, legal way that was the only help he could give when he was in the same situation as them, Werner Klemke was choosing to do something much different. He chose to help the Jews by printing fake